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I have a desire S, Which is S-Off through revoltionary and rooted! But i don't have a nandroid backup and my phone will no longer boot up. what can i do? I've tried to do a factory reset in recovery mode but that doesnt work.
How can i flash a stock rom on it to get it back to normal, i think its bricked... can someone help me?
1st of all i suggest you download a custom rom from the development section here.
then flash that via recovery. then hopefully your phone will load up into the new rom.
after you confirm this to me i will help you further to get back to stock rom
Thanks for the reply.
I did what you said, i tried to install a custom rom in recovery but it ends up aborting after a while, i dont think i can get any rom to work now, its not looking good
Fingers crossed
See this thread
Attempt the commands that are shown within the first #1 of it and you should be able to determine whether or not you have a fried eMMC chip.
See links in my signature for adb & fastboot drivers and the thread you need to see.
What recovery are you using? and what rom are you trying to flash?
I suggest downloading this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048203
Once you have done this follow these steps below to the letter
1. Boot into recovery
2. Format System (not wipe option but format option !!!)
3. Format Data
4. Format Cache
5. Wipe Data/Factory reset (1st option in wipe/format menu)
6. Wipe Dalvik Cache
7. Now install zip from sd card and flash the rom
8. Reboot
It was the Saga LBC mod that i was trying to install but it didn't work, nothing works that i try. i've formatted my sd card nom. basicly ive screwed everything up i've got no back ups of any rom and i cant get anything working
pumpernickel77 said:
It was the Aage LBC mod that i was trying to install but it didn't work, nothing works that i try. i've formatted my sd card nom. basicly ive screwed everything up i've got no back ups of any rom and i cant get anything working
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can you give me a step by step explanation of what you are doing and what messages/error messages you are getting at each stage?
I will try to help you the best i can. But i need to try to understand what the main issue is 1st. Don't worry just yet!
pumpernickel77 said:
It was the Saga LBC mod that i was trying to install but it didn't work, nothing works that i try. i've formatted my sd card nom. basicly ive screwed everything up i've got no back ups of any rom and i cant get anything working
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You need to give specifics and preferably screen pictures....(if possible) did you try the commands from the thread that I posted above, or what happens when you attempted the commands layed out by Eclipse_Driod above?
The more you tell us, the more we have to work with!?
I'm sorry but I dont know how to do the command thing, i'm a newbie when it comed to that I've basicly got a desire s that wont boot up and a SD card with nothing on, i think i need to somehow put a recovery image on my phone before i can install a rom
Is there any way i can install a recovery image to the sd card from the pc, that will then allow me to install a rom?
pumpernickel77 said:
I'm sorry but I dont know how to do the command thing, i'm a neebie when it comed to that I've basicly got a desire s that wont boot up and a SD card with nothing on, i think i need to somehow put a recovery image on my phone before i can install a rom
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I believe that you already have a fully working recovery on your device, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to flash LBC ROM in the first place....so I suspect that the problem is else where....(possibly damaged eMMC chip) but unless you help us, by running the commands and testing this we are un-able to confirm this for you.
You can find the adb and fastboot commands as a link in my signature simply download and then put these on you PC and run the commands that were in the thread I posted earlier (thats also in my sig Fried eMMC?)
Although I also believe that if you're able to get to S-OFF then you're able to enter the commands from your PC that will enable you to flash a recovery onto your device.
See this post where I've previously instructed some one else how to do just this.
Any questions then just and try to take screen captures or cut 'n' pastes of all errors encountered.
Good luck
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I'm sorry but I dont know how to do the command thing, i'm a neebie when it comed to that I've basicly got a desire s that wont boot up and a SD card with nothing on, i think i need to somehow put a recovery image on my phone before i can install a rom
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does it not even boot into recovery?
you need to hold down the volume down button and keep it held down while you power on the device. This will make it boot into recovery mode.
But before you can do that i would advise you take the sd card out of the phone, connect it to your computer with a card reader and copy over the lbc mod rom.zip file straight onto the card, then put it back into the phone.
then turn the phone off and boot into recover as mentioned above and select install rom from sd card and select the zip file you transferred over.
after it has installed reboot phone by selecting the "reboot" option in the recovery mode.
all should now be well.
report back how this goes
and don't forget to hit that thanks button
Thanks for your patience.. I'm going to try and explain in full what i've done
I got S-off on my Desire S using "Revoluntionary" (after watching how to do it on YouTube) and after domwloading ClockWorkMod from market place I sucessfully installed Saga LBC ver 5.3. Everything was fine i was very pleased. I had a back up of the old stock ROM saved on my SD card which i did through Clockworkmod too.
Then this morning I got a update message from clockworkmod saying ver6.0 was available to download so i did. My phone never turned back on again I could get into recovery mode but nothing would work (wipe data, factory reset, Even tryin to install the old backed up rom didn;t work) it just kept freezing.
So i took my sd card out and plugged it into the pc to try to look for anothr rom to try out, thats when i ended up formattig the SD card (god knows why) So now ive got no backup, no clockworkmod, no nothing on my SD card...Am I screwed??
Thanks for your patience.. I'm going to try and explain in full what i've done
I got S-off on my Desire S using "Revoluntionary" (after watching how to do it on YouTube) and after domwloading ClockWorkMod from market place I sucessfully installed Saga LBC ver 5.3. Everything was fine i was very pleased. I had a back up of the old stock ROM saved on my SD card which i did through Clockworkmod too.
Then this morning I got a update message from clockworkmod saying ver6.0 was available to download so i did. My phone never turned back on again I could get into recovery mode but nothing would work (wipe data, factory reset, Even tryin to install the old backed up rom didn;t work) it just kept freezing.
So i took my sd card out and plugged it into the pc to try to look for anothr rom to try out, thats when i ended up formattig the SD card (god knows why) So now ive got no backup, no clockworkmod, no nothing on my SD card...Am I screwed??
from what you have told me u still have clockwordmod recovery as it is on the phone itself. not the sd card. So you are ok there. What i need you to do next it to see if you are able to boot into recovery?
if you can then try again to format data, system and cache.
then try installing a rom from your sd card.
if it is still freezing while trying to perform a format then look back at bens previous posts about using adb through your pc to find out if your emmc chip is damaged
I can boot into recovery no probs there, but when i format data, system and cache it goes so far and then aborts
Ive just tried to install the LBC rom again i renames it PG88IMG ind it asked me to install so i did. It says 'update in progress' and the bar on the right starts to fill up but it stops near the top and eventually aborts
right, the only thing i can think of to try next is following the same method you said you followed to s-off through revolutionary.
it will say you are already s-off or something but click proceed anyway. and make sure from there that you type "y" when it asks if you want it to install clockworkmod recovery. as this will reinstall a fresh recovery image for you.
this is the only thing i can think of.
let me know how it goes
did you look at my post#11 above...
The second half of it contains instructions on how you can flash a new recovery image......from your PC.
Ive just tried to do the s-off again the way i did before but i can only go as far as the part when i connect my phone and open the revolutionary programme and it doesn't detect my phone
Ok, it looks like the last option to try is flashing a new recovery image manually.
For this you will need to download and install adb. which can be found here
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-adb-and-how-to-install-it-android/
along with instructions of how to set it up and use it.
after you have done this you will need to download this
http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-saga.img
which is the latest clockworkmod recovery for your phone. and rename it to recovery.img
then copy the recovery image to a convenient location on your computer, preferably with a short path. We will be placing it on the C Drive directly (not in any folder) and using that in the next steps.
Power your device off and reboot it in fastboot mode. (holding volume down whilst pressing power on button) then select "fastboot" from the list of options you get.
Connect your device to your computer via USB and wait till you see ‘fastboot USB’ on the screen.
Launch Command Prompt and type the following command:
fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img
Wait for the process to finish and reboot your device once it’s done.
Hi,
I can't mount the sdcard in recovery mode. Been trying TWRP and now I'm using ClockworkMod. Same problem with both.
I think the problem is because I formatted the sdcard on my mac and now it doesn't recognize it. I've done this once but that time I was running android and it told me once unmounted that the sdcard was damaged so it got formated again.
I've done a factory reset, wiped everything so there is no rom installed, stuck with recovery. Can't flash anything. Been searching the web for hours now and at this time I really need some help.
Best regards,
joscham
I found this article (search on google "How To Install A ROM To An Android Phone / Device Without SD Card" since I'm not yet permitted to post links) to flash a rom without sdcard. Does anyone know where I can find Amon_RA recovery for nexus s? Yet I've only read that it's not available for the nexus s.
Does anyone know another solution on how to flash a rom without access to the sdcard? 7 hours of frustration...
You could try odin, maybe? Unfortunately the thread for it doesn't have the files available any longer but maybe someone else has them.
What model of the phone do you have/
Thank you for you replies. I have model I9023XXKI.
Everything worked at first in TWRP. But when I mounted the usb I decided to format the sdcard on my computer and since then I can't do anything. I've tried to format the sdcard FAT32 on a mac and a pc, still the same. I can't format the sdcard in recovery since it can't mount it. How such a little thing can suck my weekend to hell...
I'm unfamiliar with odin, if there are some old tutorials on how to get any version of android, anything to flash would be . Been searching and yet haven't found anything, only broken download links of some strange completely unknown versions of odin (to me). Been flashing roms for a long time now but this is going way over my weight. If only the nexus s had an external sdcard, I could put it in an other android phone and it would ask me to format the sdcard since it is "damaged".
GOT IT FIXED! I locked and unlocked the bootloader. Pizza!
Hi!!!
joscham said:
GOT IT FIXED! I locked and unlocked the bootloader. Pizza!
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How you did this??? I have the same problem!!! can you help me? Thanks man.
geekBR said:
How you did this??? I have the same problem!!! can you help me? Thanks man.
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fastboot oem lock
fastboot oem unlock
polobunny said:
fastboot oem lock
fastboot oem unlock
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Thanks man, the oem lock worked, but the eom unlock it does because it says it can not mount my sdcard T___T
this is the short story:
my device is unlocked rooted and encrypted.
By mistake I performed format system instead of wipe data in recovery.
Now I can access fast boot and recovery but the device wont go beyond the first screen with the white asus logo and nvidia in the down corner.
Please help me.
I tried to flash the blob file from the latest version but It fails:
Failed to process command flash:system error(0x170003)
I tried to push the .29 update file thru ADB with CWM and ran it but it says: device is not found
I also tried to copy the rom file in to external micro sd card but the recovery does not see the card.
Please Please help!!!
Didnt you do a cwm backup before you did all that?
yes, but I cant restore it. I get the massage e:cant mount /sdcard
Hi,
I guess, you can't flash this way, if your dev is encrypted.
anywere I found a howto how to format the encrypted partition.
I look for it, if I found some time.
Midyr
please help me soon. i tried everything. dont know what to do next
Search for "Android_Revolution_HD_Super_Wipe_Full_EeePad.zip"
I dont't now, if it really works, because before I found this, I have bricked my dev with flashing a 201er image.
But I get no error after use the wipe.zip.
good luck!
Midyr
now when I try to push the rom zip with adb it says protocol error
Hey man Im sorry I cant help more. I bricked my first TF300 so I know what it feels like. Dont give up, someone can probably get you going again.
Check this topic. TS bricked his encrypted tablet and got it working again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1679274&highlight=encrypted
Hope it helps....
did not help
Not sure about the encryption stuff, but I recently went through the same thing.
I would try to use adb to push a custom rom (i've been having issues flashing stock rom for some reason)
I would also try to do a factory reset <--- this got my working.
I did a full wife (system format)+factory reset. I think that I have a shell.
Is there a way I can copy the rom to external sd card and somehow install from there?
I cant see the external sd card in recovery.
I tried every way to push the rom file -also a custom rom to the tablet-no success.
it gives me a protocol error or read only error. I cant mount the internal sd card.
I also tried to flash the blob of the rom with fastboot- it gives me a flash error.
can someone guide me step by step what to do?
I dont think that the tablet has a hard brick because I can enter recovery and fastboot. also I can flash boot.blob from cm9, I dont know how to flash the whole rom.
Please advice what to do next.
I'm willing to donate money the to person who knows how to save my device
If you could somehow push this to your device, you might be able to copy the stock zip onto your internal storage.
Yes you need to install the ADB drivers so you can push/fast boot on there
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1680570
Can we get my thread stuck?
TXKSSnapper said:
If you could somehow push this to your device, you might be able to copy the stock zip onto your internal storage.
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will it fit for tf300? or brick it?
Northern-Loop said:
Yes you need to install the ADB drivers so you can push/fast boot on there
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1680570
Can we get my thread stuck?
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i did all this steps. cant push the rom file to the sd card. I think that I need to re-partition the tablet somehow.
Try using "fastboot -i 0x0B05 -w," then try pushing the ROM to your sdcard.
tainka said:
i did all this steps. cant push the rom file to the sd card. I think that I need to re-partition the tablet somehow.
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That's last steps!
When the device is in recovery and connected to the PC what devices are shown in Windows Device Manager?
prototype7 said:
Try using "fastboot -i 0x0B05 -w," then try pushing the ROM to your sdcard.
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did it. wont pust protocol error on read only error
Good day everyone,
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I am in desperate need of your help. I recently purchased a HTC One S from an online store they told me it was new never used locked phone. Turns out phone was rooted, 4g does not work, and it could not recognize e drive, (internal sd card)
After reading the all in one i re-rooted it and install the teamwin version of recovery.
Now i never had any back ups or any factory files. as i got the phone rooted with software that did not work. My phone now has no rom and i cannot install from adb sideloader, or an other means. I am new to this and cannot seem to figure out how to get my phone back to even stock un-rooted etc. I tried multiple forums and download links but nothing.
i was able to install vipers rom at one point but despite several attempts to reinstall. recovery does not see files loaded. which i can see on my mac or pc.
the other strange thing i notice is that at the top in fastboot mode i sometimes see unlocked in pink only and other times i see both unlocked and tampered. when its unlock only none of my computers recognize connection.
I also tried boot.img for flash. The furthest my screen no goes is the htc logo, then goes black.
Please help, even to just point me in rite direction to have this resolved.
the boot.img, did you flash it via fastboot? (fastboot flash boot boot.img)
And, one question that comes to mind... they sold you a device as new, yet it wasnt.. Why didnt you return it?
Goatshocker said:
the boot.img, did you flash it via fastboot? (fastboot flash boot boot.img)
And, one question that comes to mind... they sold you a device as new, yet it wasnt.. Why didnt you return it?
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Yes I tried several times loading the boot.img via fastboot.
As far as returning the device i trashed the mailing box but kept original packaging so no return address. I called the company which i made the purchase from "N1wireless" several times and sent several emails to them. They have yet to reply or answer any of my calls. Which is why I am so frustrated.
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Yes I tried several times loading the boot.img via fastboot.
As far as returning the device i trashed the mailing box but kept original packaging so no return address. I called the company which i made the purchase from "N1wireless" several times and sent several emails to them. They have yet to reply or answer any of my calls. Which is why I am so frustrated.
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Boot into recovery, select mount > mount usb storage. From pc move the Rom.zip to your sd card which should now be showing on your pc. After it is moved to your phone select unmount then press home button in twrp recovery. Then install the Rom. After install open up adb and type adb reboot bootloader then press enter. Now fastboot flash the boot img from inside the Rom.zip on your computer. After that reboot your phone and report back
Sent from my HTC One S using xda premium
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Boot into recovery, select mount > mount usb storage. From pc move the Rom.zip to your sd card which should now be showing on your pc. After it is moved to your phone select unmount then press home button in twrp recovery. Then install the Rom. After install open up adb and type adb reboot bootloader then press enter. Now fastboot flash the boot img from inside the Rom.zip on your computer. After that reboot your phone and report back
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Hi, thanks for the reply, thats just the thing I cannot in recovery install any rom loaded to sd card. It fails. I tried reinstalling the recovery and it still not reading my sd card.
So my guess is i need a new twrc or how to do it from my mac, as now when i try on my pc it is failing as-well. Once I get the recovery to work I will try your other suggestions as I think it will work based on the steps you mentioned.
I am trying to figure out how to use terminal to reinstall recovery. any suggestions or links will be greatly appreciated.:good:
you install recoveries through fastboot, fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
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you install recoveries through fastboot, fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
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I reinstalled recovery several times now and it wont recognize the sd card. is there another recovery i can download and use? Also is there any instructions for a newby to use terminal to re-boot, everything from scratch. Meaning if the phone is completely blank except the fast boot and a recovery manager no backups or stock kernel etc. what is the format to be used in order for the computer and recovery to recognize the sd card?
I think I need a good recovery rom like cmod if there is one for the htc one s or the stock one if someone has it.
hi i had that problem
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I reinstalled recovery several times now and it wont recognize the sd card. is there another recovery i can download and use? Also is there any instructions for a newby to use terminal to re-boot, everything from scratch. Meaning if the phone is completely blank except the fast boot and a recovery manager no backups or stock kernel etc. what is the format to be used in order for the computer and recovery to recognize the sd card?
I think I need a good recovery rom like cmod if there is one for the htc one s or the stock one if someone has it.
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I had that problem the sd card would not be seen by my laptop and the phone would not boot at all if you plug in the phone to your go to start and then computer right click on your c drive go to manage and see if you can see it there if so try to format it and then reboot the phone if it works you can then install cwm as a recovery system then you can put what rom you wont on it i am use in zenRom 1.05 and to me its the best coz it like the htc rom that the phone come with if that don`t work let me know coz i have more tricks to try i hope this helps you out.
Theres only TWRP and CWM for the S afaik, and CWM sucks. TWRP is the one to use.
I had a similar problem a few days ago, luckily there's not such a bad solution.
1) Pick a custom ROM you want to install from the HTC One S developer forums (I went with Trickdroid) and download the ROM/boot image.
2) Then download and flash the stock recovery here: http://www.4shared.com/file/1UuxTh0k/stock_recovery.html
3) Boot into bootloader, clear storage and then reset to factory defaults.
4) Flash TWRP
5) Reboot into recovery, sdcard should now be mounted/visible
Then push the ROM to your sdcard with adb or mount USB storage and flash it/flash the boot image and you should be sorted.
Edit: Here's where I got the solution from btw (post #8):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
Hope that helped!
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I had a similar problem a few days ago, luckily there's not such a bad solution.
1) Pick a custom ROM you want to install from the HTC One S developer forums (I went with Trickdroid) and download the ROM/boot image.
2) Then download and flash the stock recovery here: http://www.4shared.com/file/1UuxTh0k/stock_recovery.html
3) Boot into bootloader, clear storage and then reset to factory defaults.
4) Flash TWRP
5) Reboot into recovery, sdcard should now be mounted/visible
Then push the ROM to your sdcard with adb or mount USB storage and flash it/flash the boot image and you should be sorted.
Edit: Here's where I got the solution from btw (post #8):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
Hope that helped!
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got it. will try it asap.
I could not get the stock recovery via that link you provided. If there is another link to the stock I would appreciate it. I had to flash it wit cwm twice then reflash with twrc to get it to identify the sd card. i had tried the viper rom but my 4g and wifi doesnt work. Will try trickmod hopefully that works with no more issues
violentlighting said:
I had a similar problem a few days ago, luckily there's not such a bad solution.
1) Pick a custom ROM you want to install from the HTC One S developer forums (I went with Trickdroid) and download the ROM/boot image.
2) Then download and flash the stock recovery here: http://www.4shared.com/file/1UuxTh0k/stock_recovery.html
3) Boot into bootloader, clear storage and then reset to factory defaults.
4) Flash TWRP
5) Reboot into recovery, sdcard should now be mounted/visible
Then push the ROM to your sdcard with adb or mount USB storage and flash it/flash the boot image and you should be sorted.
Edit: Here's where I got the solution from btw (post #8):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
Hope that helped!
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Hey thanks allot for your suggestions. I made some progress. It kinda worked. However I my wifi and data connections no good. I tried the 9.1 update and then tried the tweaks.
Do you know if it is possible to get stock kernel and stock rome to undo changes on device?
I am brand new to this kind of android tinkering. Yesterday, I successfully rooted my phone and attempted to install Cyanogenmod7. I had an HTC Inspire running Gingerbread. Everything done, tried to boot phone from recovery with all data/caches wiped, phone was ready to boot Cyanogenmod. Waited about half an hour and it was still stuck on the HTC splash screen, so I pulled the battery and went back to recovery and my SD card was wiped, including all HTC Sense and Android data. Can anyone help me restore my phone back to Gingerbread? I tried running some RUU's to no success already
Move a ROM to your SD card from your computer, flash it, and fastboot flash boot boot.img from the ROM zip.
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Move a ROM to your SD card from your computer, flash it, and fastboot flash boot boot.img from the ROM zip.
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Thanks for the quick reply. So the ZIP file, im gonna have to extract in in my computer and find the boot.img file then flash that? And man, I'm gonna have to get an sd card converter for my laptop then.
Also, would this still work with my SD card? There is literally nothing on there.
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Thanks for the quick reply. So the ZIP file, im gonna have to extract in in my computer and find the boot.img file then flash that? And man, I'm gonna have to get an sd card converter for my laptop then.
Also, would this still work with my SD card? There is literally nothing on there.
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Yes, extract the ROM zip on your computer, and fastboot flash it from there to your phone. If your recovery is working you can move the zip file to the phone from there.
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Yes, extract the ROM zip on your computer, and fastboot flash it from there to your phone. If your recovery is working you can move the zip file to the phone from there.
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I'm looking at your signature block, the hyperlink on "this". I can't seem to open the command window, and I dont have access to an SD adapter, any suggestions?
I'm getting "FAILED remote signature verify fail" from the cmd